Sam Russek ’19 describes his time in New York City interning with the Awards Department of PEN America and Bloomsbury Publishing, mingling with working writers, and taking in all the Big Apple has to offer.

Sam Russek ’19 describes his time in New York City interning with the Awards Department of PEN America and Bloomsbury Publishing, mingling with working writers, and taking in all the Big Apple has to offer.

New Southwestern alumnae Angelica Grayson ’18 addressed her peers at Saturday’s commencement ceremony. She spoke on the Southwestern experience, the value of her liberal arts education and not letting moments pass you by.

The Multicultural Recognition Ceremony recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of students that have been advocates, leaders and champions for diversity and social justice at Southwestern University for numerous years.

Dr. Munt compiled a record of 554–301 during her 20-year career as SU’s women’s volleyball coach. What began as an entry-level coaching position has blossomed into a nationally recognized career including induction into the NAIA Hall of Fame.

The Multicultural Recognition Ceremony recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of students that have been advocates, leaders and champions for diversity and social justice at Southwestern University for numerous years.

Participants

This year’s symposium is honored to host these guest speakers.

Carol Adams

Carol J. Adamsis the author of The Sexual Politics of Meat now in a 25th anniversary edition, Burger, in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series, the forthcoming Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, and Fuel Your Resistance One Meal at a Time, and many other books. She has edited several important anthologies on ecofeminism, feminism, and animals. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post,Ms. Magazine,The Christian Century,Tikkun, and Truthdig, among others. She lives in Dallas with her partner and two rescued dogs.

Dr. Robert Bullard

Robert D. Bullard is often described as the father of environmental justice. He is the former Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University 2011-2016. Professor Bullard currently is Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy. Prior to coming to TSU he was founding Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University. He is an award-winning author of eighteen books that address sustainable development, environmental racism, urban land use, industrial facility siting, community reinvestment, housing, transportation, climate justice, disasters, emergency response, and community resilience, smart growth, and regional equity. Dr. Bullard is a proud U.S. Marine Corps veteran.

Dr. Christopher Carter

Dr. Christopher Carter’s teaching and research interests are in Black & Womanist Theological Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Religion & Food, and Religion & Animals. His publications includeThe Spirit of Soul Food(University of Illinois Press, forthcoming), “Blood in the Soil: The Racial, Racist, and Religious Dimensions of Environmentalism” inThe Bloomsbury Handbook on Religion and Nature(Bloomsbury, 2018) andThe Future of Meat Without Animals(Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). In them, he explores the intersectional oppressions experienced by people of color, the environment, and animals. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of San Diego and a Faith in Food Fellow at Farm Forward.

Andrew Revkin

Andrew Revkin is one of America’s most honored and experienced journalists and authors focused on environmental and human sustainability and efforts to use new communication tools to foster progress on a finite, fast-forward planet. In the spring of 2018, hejoined the staff of the National Geographic Societyas strategic adviser for environmental and science journalism.There he is helping expand the Society’s funding and support system for journalism and storytelling that can advance the human journey and conserve biological diversity in a century of momentous global change and challenges. “Weather: An Illustrated History,” written with the environmental educator Lisa Mechaley, is his fourth book.

He has written on global environmental change and risk for more than 30 years, reporting from the North Pole to the White House, the Amazon rain forest to the Vatican — mostly for The New York Times. From 2016 through early 2018, he was the senior reporter for climate change at the nonprofit investigative newsroom ProPublica. From 2010 through 2016 he wrote his award-winningDot Earthblog for The New York Times Opinion section and was the Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University. There, he developed andtaught a graduate course called “Blogging a Better Planet” and co-created an award-winning field course onenvironmental filmmaking.

Revkin has crossed over into scientific scholarship. He played an early role in the evolution of the hypothesis that humans have triggered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. In his 1992 climate book,he wrote: “Perhaps earth scientists of the future will name this new post-Holocene period for its causative element—for us. We are entering an age that might someday be referred to as, say, the Anthrocene [sic]. After all, it is a geological age of our own making.”That future arrived just eight years later, in 2000, when scientists formally proposed such an epoch. Revkin was invited to join the Anthropocene Working Group and served from 2011 through 2016. He is a co-author on aseries of related peer-reviewed papers.